Thanks for all your replies, they've been most helpful. It is as I suspected, getting a job as a particle physicist is anything but easy and getting a job as an astrophysicist also seems more difficult than I thought. But oh well, what is life without a little challenge.
But thanks anyways and...
That is what I was afraid of, which is why I started looking into it. But, as I said earlier in the thread, I wouldn't hate being an astrophysicist or some other kind of physicist. And thanks, again, for replying. :)
I will, but, as I said, this matter is just a little interest so I won't spend a lot of time searching, tbh.
Thanks for the reply and here's hoping you'll eventually get a job doing scientific research. And I also see myself as more of an experimentalist rather than a theorist, though you...
Thanks :)
I admit that I used "doomed" loosely, as just about any job in physics would make me happy, I just have a particular soft spot for particle physics.
I have also thought about this and probably I will end up doing this not only because it's practical but also because I like a whole...
Why hello there,
Before I state the question I would just like to give a short background tour:
I'm 17 years old, live in Iceland and have wanted to be a physicist for many years and for some quite some time I've wanted to be a particle physicist in particular. I've always gotten 9's and...